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Show t r?"jr rry y.yry1 rr j r,r,rr j r mnnrwy i x Page 10 fbf Balt fall . . HfUmn Tuesday Morning, July 7, 1964 Henry Cabal Lodge Is on the Pboke By Our Readers - Pot Is Boiling Castro Will Behave On His Terms Premier Castros willingness to ease Cuban relations with the United States j' is a welcome change from his former bel , ' ligerence and vituperation. For if rela- tions are to improve, there must first be v a clearing of the atmosphere.; So far, of course, Castro has done no more than say what he would be willing 4 to do in exchange for concessions by the U.S. But the fact he went on interview with Rich- record in an 18-ho- Second Line of Defense Boom or inflation? Will we be lavishing that extra three or four dollars a week on a new motor for the boat? Or will it be stealthily picked from our pockets by another increase in the cost of living? MANY WONDER about the ultimate effect of the eleven and a half billion dollar federal tax cut. It has boosted the na- tions a month. pay by 800 million dollars ' ' . Save It? Invest it? Or spend It while the spending is good? Theres reason to believe this will be one serving of cake well be able to have take-hom- . and - e eat Although full effect of the cut wont be felt until autumn or fall, the government will be ready to counter any ad- verse reaction. - . ' This is the consequence of development of a battery of indices and diagnostic equipment which measure the economic metabolism of the nation. FIRST LINE of defense in countering - Inflation is what President Johnson calls "responsible business and "responsible labor. Walter E. Heller, chairman of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers, - said the nation's ample and growing supplies of labor and Industrial capacity can readily absorb the punch of the tax cut --. without inflation. --- "Second line of defense (President Johnsons words) is the Federal Reserve system. If the economic metabolism gets out of kilter, the Federal Reserve can apply or withdraw stimulants. - It can hike or cut the rates it charges , it makes to member banks (which are reflected in loan rates to customers). : It can alter reserve requirements of member banks. The effect is to immediately increase or cut the amount of money a bank has available for loaning,1 . on loans n. , ,. THROUGH MARGIN requirements, it can fix down payments required when funds are borrowed to buy securities listed on national exchanges. - The Federal Reserve is not omnipo tent, however; some "7,000 commercial banks are not subject to .the Federal Reserves control. , non-memb- er . . ' The Fcdcral Reserve has been charged with faulty forecasting result---) ing in faulty exercise ef Its monetary authority. r But the system is considered to be better by a long shot than such direct measures as rationing andprice control. As such it is a shield against the winds of Inflation or deflation. Nisei of the Biennium The title of Nisei of the Biennium, given to Henry Y. Kasai at the 18th bienn nial Citizens League Convention in Detroit, is well deserved. Z Mr. Kasai In long residence in Salt Lake City has proved himself an outstanding citizen, not onlj as a worthy and dedicated representative of the Japanese-'merica- n community in this city and state, but as an active Influential leader of the community as a whole. As the award stated, he has "promoted good will between the United States and Japan," worked for the well being of his fellow men and his community, and taken a prominent part in the fight against' ' Japanese-America- tacial discrimination. - .The national award is a personal tribute to Henry Kasai, buflt is also a tribute to the of this and It brings honor to Mr. adopted state of Utah, which is proud to claim him as a citizen. Z Japanese-America- ns cora-inuhi- ty Ka-fa- is .Visiting Cartoonist ard Eder of the New York Times could be significant His views should be explored in Washington. thor-ough- ly CASTRO WANTS the United States and its hemispheric allies to cease their support of what he calls subversive activities against his regime. In turn, he would withhold material support from revolutionary movements in Latin Amer' ican countries. The latter proposal conflicts with his policy of exporting the revolution. Yet even if material support were ended, Cuba would still remain a center of Communist infection in the Western Hemisphere a base for propaganda and indoctrination. Castro would not abandon his principles, but simply tone them down. He still plans to give Cuba a "socialist" constitution and a Cuban Communist Party. - There have been rumors of late that Castro hoped for a rapprochement with the United States. t . The b&sie reason Is not difficult VI J! uiatcu Alt tu cwuvuuu to tobacco. convention can- Castro hinted that the Soviet Union had advised him to seek a betterment of relations with the United States. The USSR, he remarked, has always wanted to reduce International tensions. We note, however, that this certainly was not the case when the USSR established missile bases In Cuba less than three years ago. Premier Castro, like Premier Khrushchev, behaves best when ho finds it advantageous or necessary to do so. THE SINCERITY of the Castro proposals has yet to be tested. That could be done, since he has .cleared the way, through a discussion of issues by Wash- ington and Havana. ,We believe, however, that an insurmountable obstacle bars the way to meaningful agreement Cuba is a Communist state which, in Castros words, cannot agree to withhold its "sympathies and help from other revolutionary move4 ments. The Cuban premier Is asking for better relations on his own terms. Dont Leave a Spark! Just a week before the seasons first major forest fires broke out in Utah last Saturday, forest fire control officials warned that, despite the late, wet spring, the fire danger could quickly become serious. This is partly because weeds and tinder dry cheatgrass, favored by the good growing weather, are taller and more dense than usual. A few days of hot weather with drying winds would make them highly flammable. The two fires, in 'the Flshlake and Manti-LaSforests, proved the warning timely.' Nearly a hundred acres were burned over in each fire and crews which reached as high as 170 on the Flshlake fire were required to get the blazes trader ' . al control. Such . fire fighting is costly In terms i- of expenditure both of manpower effort f and taxpayer money. And the damage is costly In loss of protective ground cover and at times in destruction. of valuable stands of trees or forage. Those who frequent Utahs mountain areas for summer fishing, boating and other outdoor recreation should need no furthef notice that the fire danger will be high from now until fall rains begin. Be extremely careful with every kind of the burned fire when on an outing discarded the match, campfire. It dgaret, takes just a spark to start a disastrous forest blaze. Be sure you dont leave a spark anywhere. - Modem defeatist! One who already refers to the Republican convention as the Ev and Barry show. , Fourth of July traffic showed that Patrick Henry wasnt so smart When he said, "Give me liberty or give me death," he didnt foresee that we could have both. ' Newsdar - 1 t WASHINGTON For anyone who Jieard Sen. Dirksens closing speech in the civil is possible, moreover, that the Soviet Union, with grave economic problems at home, can no longer afford to carry its Caribbean satellite. It WASHINGTON Sen. Dirksen will nominate Sen. Goldwater, who said Dirksens civil rights bm would lead to n po lice state. Ev always wanted to be a desk bland Dirksens Logic in Backing Goldwater as But all this obviously has not been enough. Cubas normal market is the United States, not 3,000 or more miles away. Potomac Fever Crook In Long Max Freedman rights debate, his decision to nominate Sen. Jack Wilson's Guarding the Watermelon Fateh - A country, never overly prosperous, is suffering crippling shortages of all kinds. Castro Indicated as much when he sal there were many things Cuba needed to buy from the United States. He also indicated that Cubas economic distress was caused, in part at least; by the loss of its sugar market hi the United States, The American economic blockade has not been a complete success. European countries, Including UJS. allies, continue to trade with Cuba. The Soviet Union has provided some sort of economic subsidy by purchasing suchjcrops as sugar and The Senate rules committee winds up the Bobby Baker investigation and recommends a tough code of ethics that would apply to everyone but Bobby Baker. '. Editor, Tribuner For the general welfare of the nation, the Republicans can and will win the 1961 election, providing they avoid a split in their ranks and do not show misguided leadership. Because of the division in party ranks in the campaign of 1958, the Republicans elected Sen. Moss and Rep. King, for which the Democrats have been truly grateful. With loyal Republicans and independents displaying a united front, adopting sound fiscal policies, endorsing a strong platform, eliminating waste and wild spending, providing we have no selfish spoilers to upset the voters, no divides to divide the voters, no to confuse the voters, we can elect a Republican president and a complete state and county ticket America is at the crossroads, needs dedicated service to bring about a return to normalcy. Woe be unto America, if or when she changes her Stars and Stripes for any other emblem, loses her precious freedom for any other standard and discards her Constitution, as being outdated. If ever America is forced to carry the yoke of bondage and we permit our' precious freedom to go out the window, then and only then can we say "Goodby America, we have lost the gift to mankind-freedo-m." We do not need any secret society, no "isms, pie in the sky promises or philosophies to run our nation, but what we need most is a spiritual -- reawakening! and a "moral regeneration to solve the unrest and low standards now threatening and disturbing our society. Truly, loyalty is a great virtue. SERGE B. CAMPBELL split-er-uppe-rs full-fledg- sergeant The Public Form - Goldwater at the Republican not come as a very great surprise. Every note in that the definite answer, but Sen. Dirksen should not be surprised or angry if he finds a certain degree of skepticism in his national audience to his blandishments. Meanwhile, Sen. Goldwater deserves to have his own position on civil rights recorded with some care. cans in the Senate in meeting their tasks, not an evangelist eager to convert his party and move it in new directions. day-to-d- ay IN ADDITION, he has other urgent reasons for his present decision. His friendship with Sen. Goldwater is important to both men. He knows exactly how strong the Gold-watforces are in his own state of Illinois. Finally, he can never allow himself to forget that Sen. Hickenlooper, also from the Midwest and the chairman of the Republican Party Conference, voted with Sen. Goldwater against the civil rights bill. Weighing all these points. Sen. Dirksen decided that it would be a bad political bargain to cut himself adrift from the Goldwater forces for the sake of Eastern Republicans, whose praise has come to him with the shrill note that belongs to recently converted admirers. Sen. Goldwater has always shown- - an honorable contempt for racial prejudice. er speech was addressed to Republican sentiment in the country. For the great majority of Republicans, who have always believed in civil rights, he spoke like a prophet annointed in the true faith. But he burnt no bridges connecting him with the minority who had stood with Sen. Goldwater. The whole burden of his argument was that the critics of the bill would come to regard it one day not only as necessary but as inevitable legislation, just as so many other measures, denounced at the time of their passage, are now seen to be beneficial and beyond the reach of change. But at no point in his speech did Sen. Dirksen identify Sen. Goldwater as the target of his remarks. He was, in short, as eager to maintain the greatest measure of unity among Republicans as he was to speed the passage of the bill This does not wither his garlands as a crusader for civil rights. But It makes nonsense of an the excited tributes to Sen. Dirksen as the successor to the late Sen. Vanden-berg- . He supported the civil rights bills of 1957 and 1960. He would have voted for the new bill if it had not contained the section denying discrimination in places of public accommodations, and the provision for fair employment practices. He has promised to enforce the legislation, if elected to the presidency, fairly and vigorously, even though he denounced it as an unconstitutional measure that could be enforced only by the methods that disgrace a police state. SEN. DIRKSENS speech convention is intended to remove the curse from Sen. Goldwaters stand on civil rights. Will it have that result or will tills whole episode look like a cynical exercise in political expediency? Only the event itself can give us AFTER MAKING these declarations. Sen. Goldwater expressed die hope that dvil rights would never be an issue in the campaign. He must be living in a world of phantoms if he believes tills to be- - true or Gvil possible. rights is already an issue. He must know that there is a widespread conviction that Sen. Goldwater as president would do the absolute minimum consistent with the enforcement of tiie dvil rights law. His own strategists are banking on tills conviction when they Estimate the votes Sen. for Goldwater in the South and in the dties and suburbs of the North. It will be interesting to see how Sen. Dirksen reconciles tills fact with his own conscience, and that bow he commends Sen. Goldwater to the country. at the Soaper Says Its a standing rule at the Bit o Erin Bar & Grill that anybody who tries to end an argument with, Well, its all a matter of semantics, is entitled to be punched in the nose. Its a He never Intended to fill that role. He regards himself as the leader of the Republi comforting thought that there seems to be tone sort of rule of history that no sew war can start until all the generals have written their memoirs of the previous one. Federal Bonanzas Easily Breed Graft - Save for of necessities the providing existence, no problem is for many millions in America than getting to and from work. This is a frustrating and agonizing WASHINGTON greater of life very sordid information was coining out about what happens in circumstances of this kind. The tale as told b the spe-da- l House committee on the by comparison with some other federal agencies, is a model of efficiency and selfless public service. But the bureau left much to be wanted in checking on the state officials. The Arizona record was all the worse because it refuted the concept of the federal-ai- d highway , program as an outstanding example of federal- -, state partnership of inestimable value to the public good. President Johnson is speaking lately of creating the "great aodety through new concepts of cooperation, "a creative federalism between Washington and the leaders of local communities. Federal Aid Highway Program was really unbelievable, but unfortunately true. IT WAS THE story of an of waste, Incredible mismanagement, frustration, Inexplicable confusion, callous chicanery, and indiscriminate Indulgence of forbidden practices in the interstate program in the state of Arizona. The lessons of Oklahoma and New Mexico went unlearned in Arizona. Its offldais careened dizzily forward to repeat and improve upon the colossal ineffidency of its sister states, already disclosed In - congressional investigations. The discoveries by the House committee are too numerous to repeat here. These included entrusting the vitally important testing and inspection functions to young fellows who had hot the remotest idea of what they were doing. pot-pour-ri which Congress now proposes to do, something about because the problem Mr. Wilson gets worse the more dty authorities try to solve it In doing so Congress Is .also supplying the Ingredients for graft, corruption and incompetence on a grand scale by handing out to dty authorities large sums of money for transit systems. Both the House and the Senate have passed a 375 million dollar bill to help the dties solve their - transit problems. These problems are se , huge and diverse that 373 million is a mere token pay- -. . .meat . mu-nldp- al We presumably are seeing the beginnings of a multi-billio- n dollar project on the scale of the interstate highway program. It happened that as the two houses of Congress unexpectedly took favorable action on this new federal bonanza, some I L ACCORDING TO the committee, test reports and test samples were falsified, records were kept badly if at all 'not kept there was a wholesale falsification of records and documentation, faked orders, and guesswork. The Bureau of Public Roads, and-whe- n This has an eminons Bound in view of Mine ef the things that happen in the federal-stat- e relationship. When dty hall gets its hands on the mass transit funds it may be able to teach the state officials of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma a few new tricks. What is die answer? Certainly not to abandon something like die Interstate highway program. But the answer also may be, not to start projects like the mass transit program, which are such open invitations to graft, until such programs can be controlled and can have in sight a realizable and carefully defined objective. , JOHN THORSON Contestant Speaks Editor, Tribune: This is In response to a little article in The Forum June 26 concerning the Miss Utah Pageant I felt the writer, Mr. Pierce, apparently knows little of the contest or the judging of the girls themselves. I do know, because I was one of the participating contestants. I ask Mr. Pierce to please bear in mind that many people do not look their best on television. I assure you that on stage Saturday night, the new Miss Utah looked radiantly alive and glowing. But there is so much more than beauty that a girl must have to be chosen as Miss Utah, and the new Miss . Utah possesses every quality of a true queen. Perhaps Mr. Pierce doesnt realize that the judging was not done entirely on the night of the telecast. For two days, we girls met with the Judges and attended various social functions together. The judges were extremely qualified (and unprejudiced) and they observed us girls for not only talent and beaqjy, but for grace, charm, good manners, friendliness, personality, sincerity, humility, and naturalness. ' Every contestant was interviewed Individually by the- judges before the finalists were chosen. The contest was Judged honestly and objectively, but I feel it must be mentioned that what is beauty to one person may not be beauty to another. Had we bad an entirely different panel of judges, chances are that we would have had an entirely different group of winners. The director of the Miss Utah Pageant is one of the most outstanding, qualified, dedicated and charming women in Utah, and she made every girl feel as though she had a special interest in her. We all grew to love this woman and to respect her. I am proud to have known everyone associated with the Miss Utah Pageant I am extremely happy that I have had the opportunity of knowing the new Miss Utah. MISS GAYE HARRIS, Miss Southeast Lions Club Senator From Sandpit By Ham It is great to have friends when one is young, but it is still more so when you are old. Edvard Grieg. H&rdrock Writes Again Ham! Bottleneck Bascom roared into Culdesac and tiie Claim Shack a few days ago. Came in tiie back way, which means he came down the mountain, and tfiat is from the Howdy, Devil -- knows-where. Park "Well, wbat has he done now? she asked. He stopped watching television long enough to help me do the dishes. A group of women was dis- cussing the cruel and inhuman way a neighbor had been treated by her husband. "Why," exclaimed one, "the Other day instead of giving her the money to pay her bills, he paid them himself! One of Dr. Steven L. Hancomplaining about his bad luck in the sens patients was stock market "If I invested in he said, General Motors, "wagon trains would come back. Bottlenecks nickname is a complete mis-- n o m er; he never drank Richard Wilson part "Who Wants Barry? Editor, Tribune: After a dismal showing in such primaries as Illinois and Nebraska and outright defeat in others such as New Hampshire and Oregon, Senator Goldwater won California by an eyelash. This prompted him to say he reof flected the "mainstream Republican thinking. Of 16 Republican governor it is interesting to note that he is backed by three only and of 33 Republican senators, he is backed by perhaps five. Many are outright hostile to his candidacy. The Gallup Poll has indicated that 40 per cent of all Republican voters prefer President Johnson to Party conventions are controlled by professional politt dans. These conventions, however, are traditionally democratic in that they reflect the opinions of a majority of citizens. It appears the 1964 Re- publican convention will be an ' exception to such tradition. anything cozier than a sarspa-rill- a in his life. His belt line, to be polite, is like tiie' Plimsoll line on an ocean freighter. He dresses out to a hefty 281 pounds, is six feet five inches, wean a No. 14 boot, but no hat (his ample brown curly hair offers plenty of shade). He lives tiie life of a hermit, occasionally faring forth from his cabin back yonder. Prospecting and gophering is his mainstay, and he loves the life. He always talks to himself, and quaintly "doubles in the conversation. What he approaches another human be gets dxcited and talks volubly on tiie run, giving tiie impression that a avalanche is approaching and from which there is no apparent escape. Bottleneck is a friend to fdl the kids, dogs and cats. His capacity for food is prodigious, for which we charge him nothing. He more than pays his bill In tiie tail stories he tells and he never repeats.' ' Last night, my partner Cass DuFresne and I debated his age, and agreed that 55 was a good "round figure." ' "But, . Cass summed up, eef you believe all bees stories of what he hass done in hees life, be sure mus be all of 155! WeH, be careful, ole hawss. Hardrock Harrigan. Notes on Cuff Department "You know, dear, a man said to his wife, "our son is really a fine boy. out-doo- rs two-legg- ed -- The wrongs we do, and the wrongs we suffer, are seldom weighed on the same scales. Re Platforms They tried to measure the candidate For a platform that would fit, As he ducked and squirmed and moved about ' And made a mess of It But it had to do, tiie time was short; - . They propped him up with planks And weather-strippe- d him round-abo- From head to toe to shanks. Then the party prayed, come . voting day, The knot holes wouldnt show And the platform wouldn't buckle When the banners wave and flow. - But thats the way of politics So eager at the post, They never reckon on the lap When speed is uppermost --Louis W. Larsen. ' Small World The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but , , .f 1 ' s -- |
